Rocky Mountain National Park offering free day Monday

The National Park Service is offering nine free days in 2014 when entrance fees to national parks will be waived, and the first of these is Martin Luther King Day on Monday.

Locally, Rocky Mountain National Park will be free to the public on Monday. Elsewhere, there are several units of the National Park Service directly related to the life of the late civil rights leader, including the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta; the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail in Alabama; and the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington, D.C., including the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial, where King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.

Other upcoming holidays where park admission fees will be waived include Presidents Day weekend, Feb. 15 through 17; the first weekend of National Park Week, April 19 and 20; the National Park Service's 98th birthday on Aug. 25; National Public Lands Day Sept. 27; and Veterans Day Nov. 11.